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Amon Nyx is a Sydney-based collaboration between two brothers as they embrace meditative mark-making on raw canvas or salvaged fabrics, taking these singular insignificant fragments and gathering them together into a collaborative whole. Like tiny cells building a bigger body, they are stitched together, creating order from the accidental.
"For us, art is participation in creation. Not a record of it, participation. When a subject is drawn accurately something shifts: there is confirmation that it was actually seen. Drawing is the proof of looking. The hand is the check on the eye. A piece is a claim. It says I met this thing, I saw not just its surface but what it is. To paint something with sincerity you must have really encountered it. The accuracy is secondary. The encounter is the work. Lately that has meant birds, because they have access to a part of creation we will never enter the way they do. There is something about painting them that feels like an attempt to get closer to that. We love what has been left as it was made. The gap in paint where concrete gives way to old brick. The weed finding the crack in the pavement. The collar that has gone soft at the edge. These things have simply continued to become what they are, without interference. The marks in the work are made the same way. |
Faces and figures appear out of the chaos. Sometimes ink is added to push further, sometimes the work is left for the mind's eye to complete. The human eye sees what the heart desires, and we try not to get in the way of that.
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Available Works
To Fly II
A$540.00
by Amon Nyx
Textiles & Ink on Paper
28 × 23 cm
Framed
Part of the To Fly series, this work combines delicate textile fragments with ink drawing on paper. Inspired by birds and the quiet act of observation, the work reflects Amon Nyx's ongoing exploration of perception, connection and the poetry of everyday encounters.
To Fly V
A$540.00
by Amon Nyx
Textiles & Ink on Paper
28 × 23 cm
Framed
Part of the To Fly series, this work combines delicate textile fragments with ink drawing on paper. Inspired by birds and the quiet act of observation, the work reflects Amon Nyx's ongoing exploration of perception, connection and the poetry of everyday encounters.
To Fly III
A$540.00
by Amon Nyx
Textiles & Ink on Paper
28 × 23 cm
Framed
Part of the To Fly series, this work combines delicate textile fragments with ink drawing on paper. Inspired by birds and the quiet act of observation, the work reflects Amon Nyx's ongoing exploration of perception, connection and the poetry of everyday encounters.
To Fly VI
A$540.00
by Amon Nyx
Textiles & Ink on Paper
28 × 23 cm
Framed
Part of the To Fly series, this work combines delicate textile fragments with ink drawing on paper. Inspired by birds and the quiet act of observation, the work reflects Amon Nyx's ongoing exploration of perception, connection and the poetry of everyday encounters.
To Fly VIII
A$540.00
by Amon Nyx
Textiles & Ink on Paper
28 × 23 cm
Framed
Part of the To Fly series, this work combines delicate textile fragments with ink drawing on paper. Inspired by birds and the quiet act of observation, the work reflects Amon Nyx's ongoing exploration of perception, connection and the poetry of everyday encounters.
To Fly IX
A$540.00
by Amon Nyx
Textiles & Ink on Paper
28 × 23 cm
Framed
Part of the To Fly series, this work combines delicate textile fragments with ink drawing on paper. Inspired by birds and the quiet act of observation, the work reflects Amon Nyx's ongoing exploration of perception, connection and the poetry of everyday encounters.